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I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

He who considers too much will perform little.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I want everyone to remember me as just a mogul.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

It took the city of New York to break them up. If that's not romantic, the word must've changed meanings while I wasnt looking.

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.

Nothing travels faster than happiness. Your wishes can reach India to America within a few seconds.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Every relationship is a love-lesson.

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.